On 21 Apr 2005 16:50:11 -0700, louminatti@gmail.com wrote:
>We made vacation plans for a long weekend and according to the weather
>reports it will be really sucky in NYC all this weekend while we are
>there. :-(
>
>Obviously, if you're gonna be vacationing somewhere, it's better to be
>in a place like New York where there are plenty of indoor things to do.
>I pre-ordered tickets for the ferry to Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty
>and tickets for the Empire State Building but if there is an 80-100%
>chance of heavy rain and thunderstorms (not to mention it being about
>50 degrees) I'm not sure we're still gonna do the outdoor things, or at
>least not get off the boat at the Statue. So... we're gonna be visiting
>a lot of museums and sticking to the subways, rather than walking and
>visiting parks.
>
>Saturday I'd like to do the following:
>
>- Ellis Island
>- Visit Ground Zero
>- Walk a few streets in the Village if the weather isn't too lousy
>- TriBeCa film festival - maybe see a movie?
A reasonable day. You are sticking to Lower Manhattan
and distances are not great.
>
>Sunday:
>
>- Museum of Natural History (loved this place when I was a little kid
>30 years ago, haven't been there since)
>- See the Dakota and visit Strawberry Fields
>- Metropolitan Museum of Art (never been)
> *or*
>- Guggenheim (never been)
>- Visit Grand Central (probably ho-hum for New Yorkers, fascinating for
>out of towners like me), step inside the Chrysler Building and look at
>the murals, walk down to the UN
>- Fart around Times Square, see if we can get cheap tickets for a show
>that night
>
>Is this reasonable? Too much, particularly on Sunday? We'll also have
>Monday morning open - perhaps we'll do the Empire State Building then
>if the weather cooperates. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
Doing two vast museums in one day -- Natural History and the Met --
is serious overkill. Just one of them can be exhausting. Pick one
museum and call it a day for museums. From either Natural History
or the Met you could walk to the Dakota and Strawberry Fields,
although I think Central Park deserves more than just the fringe.
So if you choose Natural History, walk across the park to Fifth
Avenue after the Dakota and Strawberry Fields and you will see
the Bethesda Fountain and more of the Park. If you choose the Met,
it is on Fifth Avenue. So start off with the Dakota and so forth
and walk across the Park and uptown a bit to the Met. 72nd Street,
where the Dakota and Strawberry Fields are located, continues on
across the park. The Met is at about 82 Street and Fifth.
On Fifth Avenue you can get a bus to take you to 42nd Street and walk east a
couple of blocks to Grand Central.Skip the U.N. Not worth it. From Grand
Central head west on 42nd Street, stopping to rest (you'll need it) at
Bryant Park between 5th and 6th Avenues. Then continue on to Times Square.
This should make a full day, if you do either museum any justice at all.
Of course if the weather is truly nasty, you will have to regroup. But in no
case would I try to do two huge museums in one day.
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